A paragraph for your swipe file.
This from a recent fundraising letter: "I do hope you'll take a couple of minutes to read this letter. I promise not to insult in·sult
n.
A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma.
insult Medtalk noun Any stressful stimulus which, under normal circumstances, does not affect the host organism, but which may result in morbidity, when it your intelligence with one-sentence paragraphs, hyperbole hyperbole (hīpûr`bəlē), a figure of speech in which exceptional exaggeration is deliberately used for emphasis rather than deception. , and a bunch of exclamation points exclamation point: see punctuation.
exclamation point - exclamation mark . I just want the opportunity to tell you why I think your support for xxx is important and why most people who do get involved with xxx renew their support year in and year out."
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